Doug's Birthday Weekend!

I don't know when birthdays turned into "birthday weekends" in our house.. but it sure makes them more fun! Doug just celebrated his birthday this past weekend and we had some fun birthday adventures.

We went to Roc for dinner on Friday night. It was very tasty food, but I must admit we had some spotty service and also got a pretty crappy table. Given the amount of restaurants in the city to go to, I doubt we will be back there.

Then on Saturday, we went to the Skycraper Museum. There was cool stuff in there, including an arial comparison between NYC and Hong Kong. It was interesting to see how similar they were (from space, I guess). Then we walked all over downtown, from the west side almost all the way over to the east side. It was a beautiful fall day, perfect for strolling. We actually walked by "ground zero" to see the state (or non-state) of building going on. We stopped by St. Paul's Chapel which is right next to the WTC site. They have a really awesome old graveyard if you are into such things. Shockingly, I am into such things. We took some pictures!




This is a tree stump of a really old tree that was damaged on 9/11. The church sustained no damage on that day - not even one broken window. They say all the big, old trees protected the chapel. Looks like this tree really took one for the team!


You can see in the background of this photo is the WTC site, so it was really close.


Then we had to go home and get ready to go back to see Phantom of the Opera. I have to be honest, I didn't think I would really like it that much. But, as it turns out, I thought it was a fabulous production. Much better than Cats (haha)!! The music was awesome and the costumes and sets were great. I have to say I found the phantom to be kinda a cry-baby wuss. But, maybe I am being too hard on a horribly disfigured guy who lives underground beneath a theater. Oh well!

Then when we left that theater, I made poor Doug hang out outside the theater next door which had Equus playing. So, we (and hundreds of other fools) waited for like 45 min to see Daniel Radcliffe leave. For you people who don't know who he is, its Harry Potter! So, we finally did get to see him with much difficulty, but it was exciting nonetheless!

Then on Sunday we just hung out in Brooklyn and relaxed. We had grand plans for bagels in Central Park, but the weather was crappy, so we just stayed around home.

I think that concludes another birthday weekend report. We shouldn't have any more for quite a while, I guess.

Talk to you all soon!